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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. sexually exciting or gratifying;
- Example: "sensual excesses"
- Example: "a sultry look"
- Example: "a sultry dance"
[syn: sensual, sultry]

2. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity;
- Example: "the summer was sultry and oppressive"
- Example: "the stifling atmosphere"
- Example: "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
[syn: sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sultry \Sul"try\ (s[u^]l"tr[y^]), a. [Compar. Sultrier
   (s[u^]l"tr[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Sultriest.] [From
   Sweltry.]
   1. Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry
      deserts.
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            Such as, born beneath the burning sky
            And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. --Dryden.
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   2. Very hot and humid, or hot, close, stagnant, and
      oppressive, as air.
      [1913 Webster]

            When in the sultry glebe I faint,
            Or on the thirsty mountain plant.     --Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sultry
    adj 1: sexually exciting or gratifying; "sensual excesses"; "a
           sultry look"; "a sultry dance" [syn: sensual, sultry]
    2: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer
       was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the
       sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm" [syn:
       sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous]